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Anatomy of the inert two-Higgs-doublet model in the light of the LHC and non-LHC dark matter searches

Alexander Belyaev, Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Igor P. Ivanov, Felipe Rojas-Abatte, and Marc Thomas
Phys. Rev. D 97, 035011 – Published 15 February 2018
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